Eight-year-old Ether (ETH) wallets have started moving coins for the first time since 2017, adding fresh supply to the market as Ether trades just above $1,500. Onchain data shows 37,806 ETH from long-dormant addresses became […]
A sequencer bug was responsible for two outages of the Coinbase layer-2 network Base last week, according to a post-mortem. The Base engineering team said in a Saturday post-mortem that they identified a bug in […]
Key Takeaways Bitcoin’s difficulty rose 7.15% at block 955,584 on June 26, marking the year’s second-largest increase.Hashprice dropped 18.34% in 30 days to $28.68 per PH/s, squeezing margins for Bitcoin miners network-wide.Hashrate holds near 984 […]
A bipartisan pair of US senators has called on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to investigate the prediction market platform Polymarket after it reportedly paid social media influencers to make videos of fake bets. Republican […]
Fidelity Digital Assets has pushed back against concerns that Bitcoin’s long-term security will deteriorate as mining rewards decline, arguing in a new research report that the network’s economic incentives remain sufficient to secure the blockchain […]
Key takeaways Luxembourg’s financial regulator has granted Ripple preliminary approval for a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). XRP is down by nearly 4% in the […]
Key Takeaways Riot named Stake-owned Kick an official esports broadcaster on June 26, starting with MSI on June 28.The deal lands about a year after Riot reversed its long-standing ban on betting sponsors.Riot still bars […]
The European Parliament’s economic affairs committee has urged the European Commission to assess whether crypto lending and borrowing, staking, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized finance (DeFi) should be regulated. The recommendations were part of a […]
TLDR Four dormant Ethereum wallets were reactivated after nearly eight years of inactivity. The wallets originally received 37,602 ETH in 2018 at about $830 per coin. They sold 33,623 ETH within four hours at an […]
Base, the blockchain backed by crypto exchange Coinbase, has returned online after the network suffered nearly a two-hour outage due to a consensus issue that halted block production. Base posted to X on Thursday after […]
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